Domesticity in Colonial India: What Women Learned When Men Gave Them Advice

by Judith E. Walsh

Book Overview

Domesticity in Colonial India offers a trenchant analysis of the impact of imperialism on the personal, familial, and daily structures of colonized people's lives. Exploring the "intimacies of empire," Judith E. Walsh traces changing Indian gender relations and the social reconstructions of the late nineteenth century. She sets both in the global context of a transnationally defined discourse on domesticity and in the Indian context of changing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742529371
• ISBN13: 9780742529373
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.1"